Improved fastening foe lasts



@nimh tats-s atwt @frn WILLIAM S. HUNTINGTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH SILLIMAN, OF SAME PLAGE.

`Lettere .Patent No. 67,307, dated July 30, 1867.

IMPROVED FASTVBNING FOR LASTS.

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To ALL WHoM 1T MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, W. S. HUNTINGTON. of` the cit-y, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Button-Fastening for Lasts, &c.; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming 'part of this specification The present invention relates to a button-fastening more especially intendedi'or boot and shoe lasts, although it can be applied te other purposes, and the invention consists in hanging the button in o. hollow ping, so as to {reel}y turn therein without becoming detached, which plug, upon its outside, is provided with a screwthread for screwing it into the part of the last or other article desired, whereby, while the button is free to be turned, it does not in the least tend to loosen the screw-plug by which it was fastened in the last, die. In the accompanying plate of drawings, my improved button-fastening is iliustrated` Figure I being a vertical section through the screwplug and a side view of the button, showing the former as screwed and thus fastened in a last. and

Figure 2 a plan view of the button-fastening detached or removed from the last.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A, in the drawings, represents the button, which terminates in a spindle or stem, B. By this stem, with a cap or head-plate C on one end, it is hung in the centre o'f a hollow plug provided with a. screw-thread, a,

around the outside, suit-able for screwing it into a. last or other article desired and proper therefor; the button Y end of the spindle projecting beyond one end ofthe screw-plug C, which, at such end, is suitably slotted across its width to allow a two-pronged or other screw-driver to be employed to insert the plug in the last.

A button-fastening constructed as above described, when attached to a last or other article desired, is perfectly secure, and whether more or less used in no manner is it loosened in its place or seat--a very important advantage, as is obvious.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent K The button-fastening for lasts, constructed asv described, consisting of the spindle B revolving freely in hollow screw-plug D, which is screwed into the last, the lower end of said spindle projecting beyond the said plug as herein set forth. l

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 31st day of January, 1867.

WILLIAM S. HUNTINGTON.

Witnesses:

WM. F. McNAMARA, ALBERT W. BROWN. 

